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BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court early today rejected former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s plea to avoid prison while he appeals a corruption conviction, in a vote that likely ends his political career and deepens divisions in the country.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – China is developing a 750-acre industrial park in Bangladesh which will largely be used by Chinese manufacturing firms, a Chinese official said on Wednesday, part of its push to expand links with South Asia and beyond.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration yesterday raised the stakes in a growing trade showdown with China, targeting 25 percent tariffs on some 1,300 industrial technology, transport and medical products to try to force changes in Beijing’s intellectual property practices.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s strategy for the U.S.-Mexico border includes mobilizing the National Guard, the White House said on Tuesday, after Trump had earlier spoken publicly to reporters about “guarding our border with the military” to stop illegal immigrants.

SAN BRUNO, Calif.,  (Reuters) – A woman opened fire with a handgun at YouTube’s headquarters near San Francisco on Tuesday, wounding three people before shooting herself dead as employees of the Silicon Valley tech company fled into the surrounding streets, authorities said.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday that 17 people had been detained for an attack on a rival presidential candidate’s campaign, but the leftist leader rejected accusations that pro-government thugs were to blame for the unrest ahead of the May vote.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru’s new foreign minister said yesterday that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was still not welcome to attend a regional summit in Lima next week, upholding a decision by Peru’s disgraced former president.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump stepped up his tough talk on immigration on Tuesday, saying he wants to deploy U.S.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – For decades, many Latin America’s oil-producing nations have often shunned investment from foreign firms, instead keeping their vast reserves under the tight control of governments and state-run oil companies.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump declared as “dead” yesterday a programme that protects immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children and pressed Congress to pass legislation to secure the U.S.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China has increased tariffs by up to 25 percent on 128 U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration yesterday rejected an Obama-era plan to make automobiles more fuel efficient, opening up a long process to weaken current standards and putting California and the federal government on a collision course over vehicle emissions.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The White House is reviewing Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt’s activities after reports he paid below the market rate to live in a condo owned by a lobbyist who deals with issues overseen by the agency, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday, citing an unnamed White House official.

SOWETO, South Africa,  (Reuters) – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who emerged as a combative anti-apartheid campaigner during her husband Nelson Mandela’s decades in jail but whose reputation was later tarnished by allegations of violence, died today at the age of 81.

SAN JOSE,  (Reuters) – The centre-left’s Carlos Alvarado Quesada decisively defeated a conservative Protestant singer in Costa Rica’s presidential runoff election yesterday by promising to defend gay rights, handing a major victory to the ruling party.

WASHINGTON/IXTEPEC, Mexico,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said yesterday that there will be no deal to legalize the status of young adult immigrants called Dreamers and he said the U.S.-Mexico

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China has slapped extra tariffs of up to 25 percent on 128 U.S.

SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – China’s Tiangong-1 space station re-entered the earth’s atmosphere and burnt up over the middle of the South Pacific on Monday, the Chinese space authority said.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Namibia President Hage Geingob said China is not colonizing Africa and that growing cooperation between the world’s No.

LUSAKA,  (Reuters) – Zambia has asked Cuba to recall its ambassador for openly supporting the newly launched opposition Socialist Party, the president’s spokesman said yesterday.